Re: Bug in 2.2.3

Shane R. Stixrud (shane@souls.net)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 23:45:35 -0800 (PST)


su - <user> kill -9 -1 <enter> kills all <pids> on the system.. not just
the <pids> owned by the su'ed user. 2.2.3ac1.

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Chris Chiappa wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:20:33PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> > > Tonight, I found that doing a kill -9 -1 as a normal user kills root
> > > processes in 2.2.3ac1.
> > I take that back. kill -9 -1 seems to kill all processes associated with
> > the user that runs it. If I run it from a telnet session, it seems I get
> Not a kernel issue. You might find 'man kill' instructive:
>
> --snip--
> ...
> cess with pid n will be signaled. -1 in which case all processes from
> MAX_INT to 2 will be signaled, as allowed by the issuing user. -n where n
> is...
> --snip--
>
>
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